KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 12 – The government has been urged to take a more proactive action to prevent cross-border crimes in Sabah. Tawau UMNO chief Datuk Tawfiq Abu Bakar Titingan who is also Sabah Youth and Sports Minister suggested door-to-door integrated operations in high risk areas as one of the steps. He
PETALING JAYA, DEC 12 – Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin says he has never shirked his responsibilities as Umno deputy president, especially when it came to helping party leader Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak discharge his duties. He said he appreciate the president’s reminder that the responsibility of the deputy president under the
KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 12 – After a three-day session, the UMNO General Assembly 2015 will be concluded on today with the party president Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak are expected to deliver his winding up speech and message to all party members on this afternoon. In the meantime, not only the 2,654 delegates
KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 12 – UMNO members should optimise the freedom of speech to strengthen the party and not stab it, said UMNO Supreme Council member Datuk Seri Idris Haron. The Melaka Chief Minister said they should use the opportunity provided by the party, instead of using other forum to bad-mouth UMNO.
KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 12 – An UMNO delegate urged members not to provide any ‘ammunition’ to the opposition to shoot and destroy the party. Datuk Shahaniza Shamsuddin from Pahang said party members should in fact be with UMNO president Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak and his team in resolving party disputes and
KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 12 – Muslim Welfare Organisation Malaysia (Perkim) secretary-general Tan Sri Mohd Yusof Noor has urged a non-governmental organisations (NGOs) to stop making provocations against Islam. He said since the G25 group are professionals, they should settle issues via dicussions. Mohd Yusof told this in the press conference on the
GEORGE TOWN, Dec 12 – The Penang Gerakan Youth have stressed on Friday that Lim Guan Eng as a chief minister should be more wise in looking after the state’s financial situation, and not just announce about the possibility of it which are going bankrupt. The movement’s Public Complaints Bureau chief
KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 12 – Kuala Lumpur City Hall (DBKL) will implement a traffic flow scheme change at the Jalan Tun Razak/Jalan Yap Kwan Seng Traffic Junction from Sunday. DBKL Corporate Planning Department director Khalid Zakaria said the permanent change will not allow vehicle drivers to turn right from the direction of
GEORGE TOWN, Dec 11 – The police slammed the brakes on 156 illegal motorcycle racers when they swooped on them opposite the site of the ongoing Penang Festival in Sungai Nibong here early Friday. In the operation dubbed ‘Ops Samseng Jalanan’, six of the racers were teenage girls, the youngest being
KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 11 – Bersih 4.0 rally organiser Maria Chin Abdullah today filed an application to strike out a charge relating to the organising of the event at the High Court here. This was told by counsel Honey Tan Lay Ean, who represented Maria, 59, when the case was mentioned
KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 11 – Changing and electing an UMNO president must be carried out according to the democratic process instead of according to the wish of a particular individual, said a Perak UMNO representative at the Putra World Trade Centre here Friday. Gopeng UMNO division chief Senator Datuk Hamzah
KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 11 – PAS should not be perceived as the main enemy of Umno, on the contrary the Islam-based party is a friend that can win back support, especially of the Malays, to the Barisan Nasional, said Terengganu UMNO representative Datuk Din Adam. Debating the policy speech of
KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 11 – The UMNO Malaysia Welfare Bureau, in collaboration with the 1Malaysia Putra Club and the Selangor Four-Wheel-Drive (4X4) Club have organised a five-day four-wheel-drive Malaysia-Thailand (Yala) Adventure charity convoy beginning Friday. Bureau chairman Datuk Seri Abdul Azeez Abdul Rahim said the convoy, participated by about 80
KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 11 – The 2015 UMNO General Assembly, which entered its second day today, continued the debate on the motion of thanks for the policy speech by party President Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak. Commencing at 8.30 this morning, another 10 debaters were scheduled to present their views including
SHAH ALAM, Dec 11 – Selangor Tithe Board (LZS) Chairman Tan Sri Syed Anwar Ibni Almarhum Tuanku Syed Putra Jamalullail leads the list of 75 recipients of Selangor state medals and awards in conjunction with the 70th birthday of the Sultan of Selangor Sultan Sharafuddin Idris Shah Friday. Syed Anwar,
KUALA LUMPUR, DEC 11 – About one third of UMNO president Najib Razak’s policy speech at the general assembly yesterday was about healing rifts, between him and his internal critics and also between the party and its political rival, PAS. But of all these, it is the feud between him and
KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 11 – Dewan Merdeka in Putra World Trade Centre (PWTC) chaotic when representatives from Perak giving a speech in a tone of questioning struggle Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad in UMNO. The commotion began when Datuk Hamzah Mohd Kassim said the success of UMNO today is not because a
DataScience, the data science startup with the name (and URL) that every other data science startup wants, announced today that it has raised $22 million in Series A. The company says that it uses a combination of in-house data scientists, proprietary technology and custom data models to help businesses do things like predict
WASHINGTON, Dec 11 – The U.S.-led coalition fighting Islamic State militants in Iraq and Syria has killed the group’s finance minister and two other senior leaders in air strikes in recent weeks, a U.S. military spokesman said on Thursday. Army Colonel Steve Warren told a Pentagon briefing coalition strikes had killed
KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 11 – UMNO Deputy President Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin and Vice-President Datuk Seri Mohd Shafie Apdal were urged ‘to calm down’ and be re-united to strengthen the party’s unity. Kelantan UMNO representative, Datuk Md Alwi Che Ahmad said the two leaders should learn from the Kelantan political history and
